Save the USA

My position is this, Nobody (save the neo-Nazis) would support Bush & Co if they knew the truth. Nobody. If somehow we could get this information to the last remaining Bush supporters…

Armed Mexican Troops on US Soil

Stealing Iraqi Oil, giving it to Exxon
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Martin Luther King Jr on Vietnam- text, pics & audio

What would he be doing today? …. In his honor, wouldn’t it be cool to burn these mp3s of MLK, go to a church (with a lot of friends to stand with you) and ask to play these most inspiring 36 minutes for the congregation

This article was headline news in the Miami Herald July 5th, 1987, considering the Katrina Concentration Camps and the Iran War talk, this seems highly relevant again today.

Lt. Col. Oliver North, for example, helped draw up a controversial plan to suspend the Constitution in the event of a national crisis, such as nuclear war, violent and widespread internal dissent or national opposition to a U.S. military invasion abroad.

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For Jonathan Alter at Newsweek:

the central story of the last act of King’s life takes place in Chicago.

Respectfully, I disagree. I believe the speech he made against the Vietnam war on April 4, 1967 - a speech i never heard in school, this was the focus of his life at the end. MLK travelled the country and delivered this speech again and again until he was shot April 4, 1968… funny coincidence, eh?

Speaking out his experiences in the Chicago ghettoes, MLK said,

My third reason moves to an even deeper level of awareness, for it grows out of my experience in the ghettoes of the North over the last three years — especially the last three summers. As I have walked among the desperate, rejected and angry young men I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems.

I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they asked — and rightly so — what about Vietnam? They asked if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted.

Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.

Trust me, it’s much better to Listen to these words from Dr. King himself, listen to these clips of arguably, the greatest speech in history.

(Don’t just listen- download them all and play on MLK Day!)

In googling for the last story, I found these two headlines side by side:

Senate Approves $50 Billion More For Wars
Oct 7, 2005

House Approves $50 billion in Social Cuts
Nov 19, 2005

I’m torn between trying to start a grassroots campaign to vote out these war-mongers, but I’d much prefer someone jumpstart this revolution by tackling and arresting Bush and Cheney, which would lead to massive, spontaneous celebrations around America and the world

Congress is at it again, doing their best Reverse Robin Hood act, taking from the poor and giving to the rich…. those crooks in DC ‘earn’ $160,000/yr for bullshit like this- from the WaPo:

the budget Congress is now considering would cut spending by $35 billion (food stamps for 300,000 & school lunches for 40,000 children) and cut taxes by $70 billion.

Don’t worry, said Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, one of the leading House conservatives. Cutting taxes for the rich is the best antipoverty program.

This is nothing short of criminal.

The Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in his very first blog entry:

“while Americans paying were record prices at the pump, energy companies were making record profits.

This is America. And Republicans don’t believe in punishing success. “

Who is Hastert working for, the American People or Oil Company Executives?

The price of everyday goods is way up, gas is nearly triple what it was before the war, millions of Americans, especially truckers can’t make ends meet, while Exxon earns record profits?! It’s *$#%ing sick!

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Oil Companies report record profits, 2000 Troops Dead, Bush calls for more sacrifice

Are these stories related?

Back in April Bush held hands with the Saudi Prince and said, “I wish I could simply wave a magic wand and lower gas prices tomorrow.”

Every year the oil companies have produced even higher record profits, and now it’s almost $10 Billion profit in just 3 months for Exxon. Is this why Bush called for more sacrifice?

the Guardian UK’s Steve Bell painted this classic

Here’s a few other accounts about ‘levee explosions’ - backing up this previous post in which during an ABC News interview New Orleans 9th Ward resident Joe Edwards claims he heard a loud explosion.

Globe and Mail via BellaCiao

“Then we heard a loud boom,” says Mr. Anderson, a juvenile detention officer. “We thought it was a generator at first but then we later learned that it was the levee. That someone was trying to put a hole in it to relieve some of the water pressure or divert some water or something and that hole led to a much bigger one. “Someone was trying to do the right thing, I think, and it created a much bigger problem. It’s going to all come out, what happened. I don’t think you can blame this on racism.”

via Ernie the Attorney:

“If you’ve noticed, there has been no or very little mension of St. Bernard. That’s because it was really bad there and there was no help. They were not helping anyone get out. It was just people helping people. Helicopters actually flew over and just took pictures didn’t try to help anyone. He has six rolls of film. [He] got a boat and actually rescued people. He broke into a two story house and stayed there. There were bodies everywhere of people and animals. He also mentioned that right before the mass flood there was a loud sound like an explosion. We think they may have blew up the levee and trying to keep it quiet. That’s why they are not mentioning anything about us.

from the WashPost:

Mullen has a schoolteacher’s kindly demeanor, so it was jarring to hear him say he suspected that the levee breaks had somehow been engineered to keep the wealthy French Quarter and Garden District dry at the expense of poor black neighborhoods like the Lower Ninth Ward — a suspicion I heard from many other black survivors.

Rosa Clemente was arrested shortly after writing this:
click here for an audio version of this account

We came up on the Convention Center, and after all the clean up, it still looked like a living hell, the smell of dead bodies was overwhelming, what was more crazy and shows the inhumanity, the VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as defined by the Internatinal Convention on Human Rights and the CRIMINAL MISCONDUCT of these devils, and that includes, Condi and Alberto, is that there were plenty of hotels, The Marriot, The Wyndham, The Holiday Inn, that were completely habitable, if this @#%$ supreme court can take my house on some eminent domain @#%$, why didn’t they declare eminent domain and take corporate property for the public good.

As Brad stated “This, the Convention center is our modern day slave vessel and our people are in the midst of the Middle Passage” meanwhile five feet from this hell were the castles; The Marriot, The Wyndham, Holiday Inn….

As New Orleans is under marshal law, last night around 6:30pm the military informed us that anyone on the streets would get a warning shot, and after that be shot on the spot, throughout the night, we saw groups of white men riding around in pickup trucks, vigilantes, along with the NOPD and the @#%$ NYPD, yes, yes yall the NYPD is in the house, this is the battle ground, this is the BATTLE FOR ALGIERS, ….

GET DOWN HERE AND HELP US!

entire account is a must read
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download the ABC News video clip at total411.info

JOE EDWARDS, JR., 9TH WARD RESIDENT: I heard something go BOOM!

MUIR: Joe Edwards rushed to get himself and as many neighbors as possible into his truck. They drove to this bridge, where they’ve been living ever since

EDWARDS: My house broke in half. My mother’s house just disintegrated. It was a brick house. All the houses down there floated down the street like somebody’s guiding ‘em

MUIR: Was it solely the water that broke the levee, or was it the force of this barge that now sits where homes once did? Joe Edwards says neither. People are so bitter, so disenfranchised in this neighborhood, they actually think the city did it, blowing up the levee to save richer neighborhoods like the French Quarter.

MUIR: So you’re convinced . . .

EDWARDS: I know this happened!

MUIR: . . . they broke the levee on purpose?

EDWARDS: They blew it!

So New Orleans resident Mr. Edwards heard an explosion just before the levee broke… seems like it’s worthy of an investigation, but instead the mainstream media buries the story. Implications?

Over 100 trucks await orders from FEMA to bring water to NOLA“They’ve got their thumbs up their as

Food Not Bombs volunteers:
We spent a couple hours talking with the semi drivers, who were operating under FEMA to bring water and food into New Orleans - but, as we saw, all were just sitting in the parking lot waiting for directions. Some had been there for days, some for more than a week, without any food or supplies from the government or any other relief agencies.

Many shared stories of frustration with the bureaucracy of the federal government and FEMA. Dozens of tanker trucks carrying 50,000 gallons of water each were parked in rows, awaiting orders to travel into affected areas and fill up 10-gallon jugs to hand out. Only a few trucks at a time are allowed in, and it takes nearly 24 hours to empty a tanker, leaving the majority of them sitting around doing absolutely nothing.

It’s like they’re trying to drive people out by not providing residents with necessary supplies… now why would anyone want that… hmmmm?

Katrina: Authorities bar Red Cross from NOLA; Blackwater gets carte blanche

Armed with assault rifles, contractors from private security firm Blackwater are patrolling the black-water-flooded streets of New Orleans.

Meanwhile, unnarmed Red Cross workers toting food and medicine have been unable to enter the city for days.

with some great reader comments:

Why do the police in New Orleans clear the city of the last remaining residents? Why can’t these residents stay in their homes if they are able to stay? And why do the authorities do this with guns?

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Since it would seem the goal of this project is to demolish the city… then give Halliburton billions to rebuild it for corporations and whites only… People need to realize that this is the biggest LOOTING operation since the fall of Baghdad - and the looters are NOT the poor blacks.

Mercenaries guard homes of the rich in New Orleans

Hundreds of mercenaries have descended on New Orleans to guard the property of the city’s millionaires from looters.The heavily armed men, employed by private military companies including Blackwater and ISI, are part of the militarisation of a city

America’s Devolution: armed mercenaries hired by the elite patrol the rich neighborhoods while cops force poor people from their homes at gunpoint.

Yo Katrina survivors and refugees- this is the news you need to know:

The gov’t passed $62.3 Billion for reconstruction, the initial $10.5B + the $51.8B just passed, where is all of that money going to go? The People affected by the hurricane/flood get $2,000 debit cards (hush money) x 1,000,000 families = $2 Billion dollars, the rest goes to Halliburton, Bechtel, etc. In other words:
Bu$hCo Cronies $60B —- A million families $2B

YO Katrina survivors:
March to New Orleans to Demand that reconstruction money go to companies that hire locals at living wages. Instead of helping people get good jobs to restore their lives, Bush actually signed an excutive order cancelling the minimum wage for Katrina reconstruction.

What if we the people stood up and demanded more? Good ideas are hard to shoot, kill, or run out of town. Naomi Klein wrote about this crazy notion that the rebuilding money doesn’t really belong to the government, it belongs to those affected by the disaster.

Reps Kucinich and Tubbs-Jones wrote a letter to Bush asking that he use the relief money to hire locals at living wages. It’s nice that the two Congresspeople wrote Bush a letter, but considering that he just signed into law the temporary cancellation of minimum wage, writing Bush a letter just ain’t good enough.

The people need to demand it personally- a long peaceful march from Houston to New Orleans would take days, but maybe that’s just the thing to draw media attention to this issue…

1.8 mb mp3 of this segment
40 mb mp3 of Mckinney’s 35 min speech thanks to GlobalFreePress

Cynthia McKinney on the Floor of the House Sept 7, 2005:

“As I saw the African Americans, mostly African Americans- families ripped apart, I could only think about slavery- families ripped apart. Herded into what looked like concentration camps. And so I was reminded of a Miami Herald article written on July 5th, the day after Freedom Day, 1987. The title of the article was Reagan Aides and the Secret Government. And here is a quote from that article:

“A copy of the memo was obtained by The Herald. The scenario outlined in the Brinkerhart(sp?) memo resembles somewhat a paper Jufrida(sp?) had written in 1978 at the Army War College in Carlyle(!), Pennsylvania in which he advocated martial law in case of a national uprising by black militants.”

in which he advocated martial law in case of a national uprising by black militants

“The paper also advocated the roundup and transfer to quote “assembly centers” or “relocation camps” of at least 21 million American negroes. Now I didn’t write that- the US gov’t wrote that. They would round up 21 million negroes because they were afraid of freeing black people…. I will just conclude by saying that on the United States State Department website is a How to identify misinformation. Does the story fit the pattern of a conspiracy theory?” [cut off]

Speaker: “The Chair has an obligation remind the members, particularly the young lady from Georgia that it’s out of order to ascribe unworthy motives to the President and the gentlelady’s time has expired.”

So what she’s saying is that We The People, of ALL COLORS must rise up together. This isn’t a black vs white thing, it’s an us vs them thing.